Stephen T. Russell, Lisa J. Crockett, and Ruth K. Chao: Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships

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In Asian American Parenting and Parent-Adolescent Relationships, Stephen Russell, Lisa Crockett and Ruth Chao have garnered a wealth of information on Asian American youth and their families, especially Chinese and Filipino Americans, and provided readers with exceptional insight into parenting influenced by cultural differences. As editors, they have not only gathered relevant studies on the chosen topic but also contributed significantly to the book by offering their own research findings related to cultural variations to parent-adolescent relationships, whose constructs were once surmised to be universal. Their goal was to “tell a new story about the cultural basis for parenting and parent-adolescent relationships” (p. vi) through a varied group of studies of Asian Americans and their families. The book is written as part of a series called Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development, edited by Roger Levesque, and is aimed at advocating research that explores conditions that either challenge or accelerate responsible development of adolescents. …